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Author's AfterwordAuthor: Charlie Place
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135: Phoenicia Rogerson (Aphrodite)
Episode 135
Sunday, 21 December, 2025
Charlie and Phoenicia Rogerson (Aphrodite) discuss the latter's mythological comedy, an incredibly unique book about the Greek goddess of love which sports an ensemble cast of many narrators in an Ancient Greek theatre fashion, a variety of different modes and effective mediums of writing including interrupting footnotes, and more sexual references than Zeus himself could produce. Please note that this episode includes necessary mentions of mythological regular and sexual violence and swearing. General references: Pausanius says in his Description of Greece, chapter 19.2: "Now the shape of it is square, like that of the Hermae, and the inscription declares that the Heavenly Aphrodite is the oldest of those called Fates." Disney's Hercules Books mentioned by name or extensively: Bram Stoker: Dracula Phoenicia Rogerson: Herc Phoenicia Rogerson: Aphrodite Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games Release details: recorded 12th September 2025; published 22nd December 2025 Where to find Phoenicia online: Website || Instagram Where to find Charlie online: Website || Instagram || TikTok Discussions 01:41 Why Aphrodite? Changes made, and the Fates 07:01 Phoenicia's interesting writing style for her book, full of slang 09:47 Phoenicia's version of Zeus 12:25 The importance of humans in the mythology, how the gods rely on them, and how it's humanity who creates and furthers the story 16:14 Starting to discuss the different narratives and continuing on with the importance of humans to mythological stories 21:22 Phoenicia's favourite mythological character 22:37 Changing Cadmus' story to include dragons rather than serpents 23:57 The different written styles and multi-media writing Phoenicia uses, starting with the paragraph of one repeated word, and continuing on with the footnotes before talking about the way she allows reader interpretation 33:56 The chapter that is simply a list of the dead 36:34 The choice on when to change narrators 37:56 How the novel was planned 39:58 Did Phoenicia consider bringing her version of Prometheus back? 45:23 The ending, moving from Greek gods to Roman gods, in particular Aphrodite 47:03 Talking book cover knitwear 48:53 Brief notes about Phoenicia's next book
